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...Fletcher Dobyns '98 delivered an address at the Twentieth Century Club, Boston, on Saturday. His subject was "Public Spirit Among Harvard Students...
...third speaker for Harvard was Fletcher Dobyns '98. He began by a concise and clear analysis of the question at issue, saying that the only question was as to the relative merits of the gold and the bimetallic standards. Any ratio which the negative could offer would fail. If the ratio adopted were 16 to 1, this would be an attempt to double the value of silver by government fiat. Whatever the ratio, business men would prefer gold to silver, because the former is certainly stable. Business domands certainty as to the future. How could it be shown that some...
...Fletcher Dobyns continued the speeches in the most forceful and the best received speech of the evening. He said: This is the most uninteresting debate I have ever attended. The gentlemen from New haven received from us a definite question. We at Harvard have understood that the question is, should we have monometallism? The negative has not shown that any other system would work. They have almost failed to even touch the question. If any advantages are to come from what these gentlemen say, it is more money. That might apply to conditions years ago, but not now. Now, credit...
...Fletcher Dobyns '98, of Oberlin, O., will make the last speech for Harvard. He prepared for college at Oberlin Academy and later at Oberlin College. While there he was president of the leading debating society. Last fall Dobyns was president of the Intercollegiate Sound Money Democratic League and stumped the Middle States in its interest. In his freshman year he was alternate on the Yale debate and has twice been on winning teams against Princeton...
...order of speaking both in the main speeches and in the rebuttals will be as follows: S. R. Wrightington '97, G. H. Dorr '97, Fletcher Dobyns...